Books between Europe and the Americas [electronic resource] : Connections and Communities, 1620-1860 /
Howsam, L.editor.
Raven, J.editor.
A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Leslie Howsam and James Raven -- Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre : An Early History of Transatlantic Print / Catherine Armstrong -- Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic : Teaching the History of Faustus   Jennifer Mylander -- Transatlantic News : American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic / Phyllis Whitman Hunter -- Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime / François Melançon -- Bookmen, Naturalists, and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60 / Nicholas Wrightson -- The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City : The Transatlantic Connection / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Classical Transports : Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800 / James Raven -- 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal' : Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century / Michael O'Connor -- From the French or Not : Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel / Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos -- 'Learning from Abroad?' : Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America /   Eugenia Roldán Vera -- Business and Reading Across the Atlantic : W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60 / Aileen Fyfe -- 'The Power of Steam' : Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60 / Robert J. Scholnick -- Conclusion /   Leslie Howsam and James Raven.
A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.
World history.
Economic history.
Imperialism.
Social history.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Economic History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
US History.
Modern History.